Space Technology Overview STIGUR 2021 Summer Meeting
Mr. James Reuter | Associate Administrator, Space Technology Mission Directorate | 06.24.2021 2 STMD FY 2021-2022 Highlights
Mars 2020 Perseverance: MOXIE, MEDLI2, MEDA and TRN Blue Origin Deorbit Descent & Robotic Refueling Mission 3 Flight Ops and Small February 2021 and beyond.. Landing (BODDL-TP)/SPLICE Spacecrafts Mars Landing & Surface Operations and Demo On Orbit Robotics Ops Laser Comm Relay Demo October 2020 October 2020 40+ suborbital and small Flight demo 1 aboard suborbital Operations Complete Fall 2021 spacecraft flights planned 2021 rocket Launch
OSAM-1 and OSAM-2 Cold Operable Deployable Polar Resources Ice Mining Fall 2021 Experiment 1 (PRIME-1) Arm (COLDArm) Plume Surface Critical Design Reviews Cryo Fluid Management April 2021 CAPSTONE/NRHO Interaction (PSI) April 2021 April/May 2021 Fall 2021 April 2021 MSolo and TRIDENT assembled for Mission Concept Review environmental testing w/ delivery to Initiate 4 Flight Demos Launch Physics focused Initiated 4 Flight Demos ground test CLPS provider Intuitive Machine in Spring 2022
CLPS Mission Deep Space LOFTID Blue Origin Deorbit Descent & Landing TALOS and A-TRN Spring 2022 Optical Comm SEP June 2022 Sensor (BODDL-TP)/SPLICE December/TBD 2021 Intuitive Machine’s “hopper” mission August 2022 in partnership with Nokia to est. January 2022 Delivery to ULA Summer 2021 TALOS and A-TRN flight on Psyche Launch 4G/LTE tech for lunar exploration Critical Design Review Flight demo 2 aboard suborbital rocket Astrobotic Peregrine 1 lander 3 Space Technology for Mars 2020 Perseverance MEDLI2 (Mars Entry, Descent and Landing Instrumentation 2) MEDLI2 is a next-generation sensor suite for entry, descent MEDA (Mars and landing (EDL). It collects temperature and pressure Environmental Dynamics measurements on the heat shield and afterbody during EDL Analyzer) A set of sensors that will provide measurements of temperature, wind speed and direction, pressure, relative humidity and dust size and shape in the Martian atmosphere
TRN (Terrain Relative Navigation) TRN gives a spacecraft the ability to autonomously avoid hazards we already know about and can land in more (and more interesting) landing sites with far less risk
Mars 2020 EDL Targeted Location
MOXIE (Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment) MOXIE will demonstrate a way that future explorers might produce oxygen from the Martian atmosphere for propellant and for breathing. 4 Ensuring American Global Leadership in Space Technology
Technology Drives the Space Economy STMD FY 2022 Budget Summary
FY 2021 FY 2022 FY 2023 FY 2024 FY 2025 FY 2026 STMD FY 2022 Budget Summary ($M) 1,100.0 1,425.0 1,454.5 1,486.4 1,519.2 1,552.9 SBIR and STTR 227.0 287.0 292.7 298.6 304.6 310.7 Early Stage Innovation and Partnerships 117.5 145.0 147.9 150.8 153.9 157.0 Agency Technology and Innovation 8.4 9.4 9.6 9.8 10.0 10.2 Technology Transfer 19.9 20.0 20.4 20.8 21.2 21.6 Early Stage Innovation 89.2 115.6 117.9 120.2 122.7 125.2 Center Innovations Fund (CIF) / Early Career Initiative (ECI) 24.4 28.0 28.6 29.0 29.7 30.3 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) 8.4 9.5 9.7 9.9 10.1 10.3 Space Technology Research Grants (STRG) 47.9 61.1 62.3 63.5 64.8 66.1 Prizes & Challenges (P&C) 8.6 17.0 17.3 17.7 18.0 18.4 Technology Maturation / Game Changing Development (GCD) 227.1 491.2 501.0 511.1 521.3 531.7 Rapid, Safe, & Efficient Space Transportation 11.0 44.0 33.8 26.6 12.0 12.0 Expanded Access to Diverse Surface Destinations 43.9 43.8 43.2 45.8 26.0 25.7 Sustainable Living and Working Farther from Earth 110.3 199.5 187.8 188.3 237.1 250.0 Transformative Missions and Discoveries 36.7 85.3 60.2 67.9 49.0 28.0 Industry & Commerce Innovation Opportunity - 85.6 142.4 148.4 162.7 180.9 Tech Management & Integration 25.1 33.1 33.6 34.1 34.6 35.1 Technology Demonstration 528.4 501.8 512.9 525.9 539.4 553.5 Technology Demonstration Mission (TDM) 461.2 430.6 440.3 451.9 463.9 476.5 Cryogenic Fluid Management (CFM) 60.1 82.0 122.1 103.5 125.7 136.4 Space Nuclear Technologies (SNT) 57.9 34.0 34.1 87.2 186.7 258.3 OSAM-1 (Restore & SPIDER) 227.0 227.0 227.0 227.0 103.6 25.4 OSAM-2 (Archinaut) 17.7 16.1 16.5 - - - Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) 26.2 24.2 18.5 15.9 17.8 5.8 Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Dec (LOFTID) 20.4 13.0 2.4 - - - Laser Comm Relay Demo (LCRD) 15.1 - - - - - Deep Space Optical Comm (DSOC) 16.4 6.2 2.0 0.1 - - MOXIE, DSAC, TDM Management & Integration 20.5 28.1 17.8 18.2 30.1 50.6 Small Spacecraft Technology (SST) 40.2 46.2 47.6 49.0 50.5 52.0 Flight Opportunities (FO) 27.0 25.0 25.0 25.0 25.0 25.0 6 Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative
Since inception, LSII has engaged ~400 organizations across 48 states and Puerto Rico to advance the technologies needed to explore the lunar surface and stimulate economic development
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab is the lead for the LSIC and overall System Integrator for LSII Focus Areas LSII Representation • In-situ resource utilization • Surface power • Dust mitigation • Extreme environment • Extreme access • Excavation and construction
7 Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative (LSII) Collaboration Highlights LSII has awarded ~$200M over a broad range of STMD Programs to establish collaborations across industry and academia.
Collaborations Partnerships& Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) Technology Demonstrations (i.e. PRIME-1 mass spectrometer and drill, Nokia 4G Wireless and Intuitive Machines Deployable Hopper)
$127M – Tipping Points & Collaborative Opportunities (10 TPs & 5 ACOs selected in 2020)
$36M – SBIRs (Ph. I, II, III, CCRPP, Lunar Sequentials)
$14M – Space Technology Research Grants (6 LuSTR Opportunity, ECF, ESI)
$9.9M – NextSTEP BAA (9 ISRU awardees with multiple ground demos)
$3.5M – Vertical Solar Array Technology (VSAT) Solicitation (5 Phase I Awards)
$3M – NIACs (including first Phase 3 award for Exploration of Lunar Pits)
$2M – Breakthrough Innovative Game-changing (BIG) Challenge 2020 Permanently Shadowed Region – 8 teams; 2021 Dust – 7 teams
$1.4M – NASA Tournament Labs (GrabCAD, Yet2, HeroX) Open-source Challenges
$1M – Centennial Challenges (’Watts on the Moon’ & ‘Break the Ice’ Challenges)
APL LSII Integration and Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium Note: FY20-21 Awards 8 Lunar SurfaceLunar Technology Demonstration Planning 2020 Excavation & Extreme Extreme Dust Surface ISRU Construction Access Environments Mitigation Power LSII leverages early lunar missions to accelerate development of core surface technologies technologies surface core of development accelerate to missions lunar early LSII leverages Polar Resources Experiment Ice Mining (PRIME) Opportunity Hopper CLPS Point Early Tipping Scouts Scouts Surface Robotic Dust Shield Dust Shield Electrodynamic Rover (VIPER/SMD) Rover Polar Exploration Investigating Volatiles Gears Glass Metallic Lunar ArmBulk w/ ISRU Pilot ExcavatorPilot ISRU Lunar Dust Removal Tool Tool Removal Dust Lunar Affects on Radiators on Affects & Sensor Level Dust Lunar for Crewed Environments Crewedfor Sensor Smart Dust Lunar Ice Demo ISRU ISRU - Mining Mining Demo Lunar Navigation Lunar Thermal ToolboxLunar Thermal Demo Lunar Materials Lunar DustSeparation Construction Demo 1 DemoConstruction Lunar Surface System Video Guidance Extraction Demo OxygenISRU Technology (VSAT) Technology VerticalSolar Array Lunar Surface Demo Surface Lunar for Charging Wireless Cell PowerCell Fuel Regenerative Lunar Camera Avoidance Rover Obstacle Day/Night Lunar (CHIPS) Power Source Integrated Chemical Heat (Landing Pad)(Landing DemoConstruction Lunar Surface Deployable Hopper Autonomous Robotics Robotics Autonomous Power Demo Surface Fission Processing Processing Demo ISRU ISRU Survivability Material Lunar Night of Lunar Pits of Lunar Autonomous Exploration ISRU Pilot Plant Pilot ISRU 2030 9 THROUGH SUBORBITAL FLIGHT
The Flight Opportunities program rapidly demonstrates promising technologies for space exploration, discovery, and the expansion of space commerce through suborbital testing with industry flight providers
SINCE 2011* FLIGHT OPPORTUNITIES HAS… COMMERCIAL FLIGHT PARTNERS: * As March 30, 2021 • Supported 212 successful fights • Enabled 736 tests of payloads • 307 technologies in the portfolio • 12 active commercial providers
• In FY21 FO has had 22 suborbital flights and is projected to STRATODYNAMICS have a total of 31 flights OPPORTUNITIES TO ACCESS SUBORBITAL FLIGHT TESTS
NASA TECHLEAP PRIZE • Technology developers will compete for development funding and have access to a suborbital flight opportunity by addressing a current NASA technology need • Competition launching June 2021, with applications due August 2021
NASA TECH FLIGHTS • Awardees receive a grant or cooperative agreement allowing them to purchase flights directly from any viable U.S. commercial flight vendor that best meets their needs
• Next solicitation release planned for early-summer 2021
SBIR AND NASA INTERNAL R&D • Rolling opportunities for small business with existing SBIR awards to receive additional funding to support suborbital flight testing with U.S. commercial providers • Open call for NASA funded research to request support for suborbital flight testing with U.S. commercial providers
NASA TECHRISE STUDENT CHALLENGE • Students in grades 6-12 will propose technologies to be developed and flown on suborbital vehicles • Teams from public or private schools in U.S. states/territories (including schools operated by the U.S. for American personnel overseas) are eligible • Competition launching late-May 2021, with application period open August – November 2021
• Winning technologies will be flown in the first half of 2023 11 UPCOMING FLIGHT OPPORTUNITIES HIGHLIGHTS
INVESTMENTS TO EXPAND COMMERCIAL SUBORBITAL TESTING CAPABILITIES
• Partnership With Blue Origin To Enable Testing In Lunar Gravity Conditions Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket system will use its reaction control system to rotate the capsule, resulting in two minutes of continuous lunar gravity, exposing the technologies to this challenging but difficult-to-test condition New capability is made possible with the help of development funding and early purchase of payload space by NASA as part of its strategic investment in the U.S. spaceflight industry
• Public Private Partnership with Masten Space Systems for EDL Testbed Tipping Point award for a vertical take-off, vertical landing vehicle that expands test capabilities for precision landing on the moon, Mars, and Earth
• Collaboration with Rocket Lab USA for Reentry Testing ACO award to explore first stage re-entry, which also has the potential to provide access to high-speed, high-temperature re-entry environments for technology testing
SUPPORT FOR LEO COMMERCIALIZATION Suborbital Testing of Advanced Space Manufacturing • Two companies receiving NASA funding for ZBLAN technology development are leveraging suborbital flight tests for technology advancement prior to demonstrations on the International Space Station • In-space manufacturing can reduce operational costs and improve on-site repair capabilities as well as offer production capabilities not achievable by ground-based systems 12 SMALL SPACECRAFT TECHNOLOGY 20 Missions (27 Spacecraft Total) planned to launch between 2021 and 2023
Missions include: • 17 LEO, 1 GTO, and 2 Cislunar The Small Spacecraft Technology program • 11 Small Business Partners and 6 collaborating NASA expands the ability to execute unique Centers • 11 Spacecraft slated for launch by the end of FY21 (4 missions through rapid development and launched already as of May 2021) demonstration of capabilities for small Key technologies in current demonstrations include: spacecraft applicable to exploration, science • 10+ Propulsion Systems (HYDROS-C, TILE, ACS3, Lunar Flashlight, CAPSTONE, Lunar and the commercial space sector. Photon, Courier SEP, DUPLEX, PACE 2, 3 & 4) • 4 Orbital Cross Links (V-R3x, CLICK B/C, CAPSTONE, Starling) • 3 Debris Mitigation Sys. (SSA / Deorbit / Avoidance) (Starling 1.5, PACE-2,3,4) • 3 PN&T / GNC Systems (HyperXACT, X-NAV, CAPSTONE) • 2 Optical Comm. Systems (CLICK A & B/C, TBIRD) • 2 Distributed / Autonomous Systems (V-R3x & Starling / Starling1.5) • 2 Advanced Structures (ACS3, LISA-T) • 1 Advanced Power System (LISA-T) • 1 RPOD (CPOD) Photo: PACE-1 Spacecraft CAPSTONE OVERVIEW & SCHEDULE
12U CubeSat that is the first spacecraft to enter into a near rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) designed for Gateway. First CubeSat to fly in cislunar space. Launching on Rocket Lab Electron, with a 3rd stage developed for this commercial launch service.
MISSION HIGHLIGHTS: • Low Energy Lunar Transfer taking 90-120 days • NRHO (Gateway orbit) pathfinder operations and flight dynamics assessment • CAPSTONE to LRO cross-link experiment to establish absolute estimate of position and velocity • Cislunar Autonomous Position System (CAPS) technology validation • Baseline mission operations of 18 months
• CAPSTONE will lay a foundation for commercial support for future lunar operations Schedule as of May 2021 Spacecraft Arrival LRO- CAPS Launch EOM Complete NRHO Crosslink Demo NET Oct Q1-Q2 Q3 2022- July 2021 Jan 2022 Mid 2023 20, 2021 2022 Q2 2023 The Early Stage Innovation and Partnerships (ESIP) portfolio leads innovation by fostering diverse ideas and communities, while transferring space technology into the space economy and beyond
The ESIP Portfolio advances 700+ ambitious projects annually across TRLs and communities to address NASA mission needs and seed future disruptive aerospace capabilities.
NASA Innovative Advanced Nurtures visionary ideas that could transform future NASA Concepts missions with the creation of breakthroughs while engaging (NIAC) America’s innovators and entrepreneurs as partners in the journey. ESIP Portfolio-Level Objectives Challenges the spectrum of academic researchers to examine Space Tech Research the theoretical feasibility of ideas and approaches that are critical Increase participation by Grants (STRG) to making science, space travel, and exploration more effective, underserved / affordable, and sustainable. underrepresented communities
Center Innovation Fund / Stimulate encourage creativity and innovation within the NASA Explore innovation pilots to Early Career Initiative Centers in and addressing the technology needs of NASA and the enable breakthrough (CIF/ECI) nation. technology and R&D
Build evidence for what works Prizes, Challenges & Makes opportunities available for public participation in NASA to advance early -stage Crowdsourcing* research and technology solutions to support NASA missions and innovations and partnerships (PCC) inspire new national aerospace capabilities. Enable technology transition Small Business Innovation across NASA, OGAs, and Engages small businesses, research institutions and Research (SBIR)/ Small Commercial Customers entrepreneurs in R&D of innovative technologies that meet NASA Business Technology needs and have the potential for commercialization. Transfer (STTR) Program* *Act as a steward for several agency-wide programs and innovation methods for NASA Technology Transfer* Ensures that innovations developed for exploration and discovery are broadly available to the public, maximizing the benefit to the (T2) Nation, and enabling spinoffs.
19 Our prizes, challenges, and crowdsourcing program advances NASA’s mission and enhances connections with the public through open innovation tools and approaches.
The FY 2022 budget request proposes approximately $8 million in new prize authority and additional awards to support multi-year challenges. This will continue the phase II prizes for Break the Ice Lunar Challenge and the Deep Space Food Challenge in addition to new activities related to climate and clean energy economy. Public Competitions in FY21 and FY22 – some highlights: Watts on the Moon NASA TechLeap Prize and TechRise Student Phase 1 Awarded: May 20, 2021 Deep Space Food Challenge Phase 1 Prize: $500K Phase 1 Closes: July 30, 2021 Open: June 2021 Phase 2 Opens: NET Q1 FY22 Phase 1 Prize: $500K TechRise Prize: $85k and Flight Opportunities Phase 2 Opens: NET Q2 FY22 TechLeap Prize: $2M Break the Ice Lunar Crowdsourcing Contenders Phase 1 Closes: June 18, 2021 Award Date: June 2021 Phase 1 Prize: $500K Space Robotics Prize: $600,000 to support ~12 Phase 2 Opens: NET Q1 FY22 Phase 2 Closes: July 23, 2021 NASA crowdsourcing projects Phase 2 Prize: $1M Challenges open: NET Q4 FY21
CO Conversion 2 Future-Scaping Our Skies Phase 2 Target Award: June 29, 2021 Award Date: July 28, 2021 Phase 2 Prize: $750,000 Award: $21,000 CubeQuest Closes: 1 year after 1st SLS Vascular Tissue launch Target Award: June 2021 Prize: $4.5M Honey, I Shrunk the Payload Prize: $500,000 Closes: January 28, 2022 Award: $800K
Centennial Challenges NASA Tournament Lab 16 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion through Space Technology
Partner with STEM Engagement’s Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) to engage and support Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs), including Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs), and to reach students from underserved and underrepresented communities. • MUREP Space Technology Artemis Research (M-STAR) aims to strengthen and develop the research capacity and infrastructure at MSIs in alignment with STMD’s priorities and to promote MSI participation in STMD opportunities and programs. The 2021 M-STAR grants offer up to $250,000 per year for a two-year performance period to MSIs.
• MUREP Small Business Technology Transfer (M-STTR) utilizes planning grants to incentivize partnerships between MSIs and Small Businesses, enhancing the potential and preparing teams to participate in the annual SBIR/STTR solicitation.
• For the 2022 BIG Idea Challenge, STMD is working with MUREP as well as Space Grant to increase access and representation through targeted outreach to MSIs, including HBCUs, and pre-proposal resources. With nearly $1M in available funding annually, BIG Idea Challenge offers the most money to student teams of any Artemis Student Challenge.
• MUREP Innovation & Tech Transfer Idea Competition (MITTIC) is a higher education spinoff challenge established to develop new ideas for commercialization by seeking concept papers from multi-disciplinary student teams enrolled at MSIs. MITTIC is currently midway through it’s second cycle.
The SBIR/STTR program increased participation of HBCUs and MSIs by launching two pilot initiatives that work directly with HBCU and the MSI STEM Research and Development Consortium to increase involvement of HBCUs and MSIs in federal research. Collaborated with OSBP, OSTEM, and Science Mission Directorate (SMD) in an annual “Technology Infusion Road Tour” to reach HBCUs and MSIs and share information about how to participate in NASA research opportunities. Early Stage Innovation and Partnerships will also place additional emphasis on increasing participation by underserved communities, as well as individuals from those communities. 17 STMD BY THE NUMBERS (FY 2020)
> 3,700 > 900 >400 > 140 Proposals Proposals University Planned flight evaluated selected partnerships with demonstrations >100 universities
> 1,400 > 150 > 500 > 900 Active Patent licenses to Industry Transitions technology companies collaborators since 2011 projects
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